# My wish: built-in prompt support

Grady Park (grady@moof.asl-labs.bc.ca)
Fri, 9 Aug 1996 12:46:34 PDT

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    On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Kipp the Kidd wrote:

    > I think it's just fine in the database.
    >
    > The only possible server way, as I see it, is if it has been 1/10th to 1
    > second second since the last notify(), display the prompt.  This would be
    > hard to do in the server, and is easily solved in the Paradigm core with a
    > simple .prompt_ok and a fork()
    >

    What about making it display the prompt not after a notify, but after a
    typed command finishes executing? If the verb forks or suspends, then the
    programmer would have to make sure e called some builtin like
    display_prompt() if e was displaying text..

    ..

    Grady (aka. Het)
    grady@moof.asl-labs.bc.ca
    vancouver..bc..canada